History Main / PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel

* ''WebVideo/{{Stampylonghead}}'s'' ''Let's Cress'' channel parodies this by obscuring key parts of videos with 'Like The Video!!!' text, which flies onscreen with an increasingly long and ridiculous whooshing sound each time. At the end of a video, he also asks people to subscribe, and share the video on Website/{{Facebook}} and Website/MySpace.

* {{LetsPlay/Technoblade}} does this to the point of Memetic Mutation. Techno often promotes his channel at the most inopportune moments, and he even has a "Sellout Timer" set to go off every thirty minutes so he can remember to promote.
** This crosses over on his appearances on the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', where his shameless self-promotion is a RunningGag to the point that [[spoiler:he once massacred half a dozen people at the Manburg Festival with his firework-loaded crossbow, then named "Subscribe to Technoblade", and he named one of the Withers he let loose on the ruins of L'Manburg "Subscribe to Technoblade". In the latter case, he even claimed that [[SkewedPriorities the name was the most important part]]]].

You've heard it a thousand times. You're watching a video on Website/YouTube and suddenly they ask you "and please subscribe to our channel", or maybe they tell you where their subscribe button is located since you could never hope to find it on your own. Typically, any "professional-ish" Website/YouTube video closes with anywhere from 15 seconds to 2 minutes of screens full of flashing animated "Click Me! Click Me!" buttons trying to entice the viewer to subscribe and/or watch all the other videos in the channel, as well as exhortations to upvote and favorite the video. Apparently they expect you to favorite every single video in the series, which makes you wonder if they have a clue what the point of favoriting is. [[note]]In the case of Website/YouTube, it's pretty much "because the algorithm encourages it" - likes, comments and subscription counts weigh very heavily on how the site's algorithms figure out what videos to show to viewers. Engagement is ''everything'' on [=YouTube=], and thus it is basically mandatory for creators on the site to encourage that engagement to grow or maintain relevance and visibility.[[/note]]

This trope includes authors asking for you to vote for or donate to them, or any other time that authors are giving you free content, but then they expect something in return. This may take the form of wanting your promise to come back, your vote that their product is indeed awesome, or your hard-earned lucre.

Not to be confused with ''[[http://www.pleasesubscribemovie.com/ Please Subscribe,]]'' which is a documentary of various [=YouTube=] celebrities including David Choi, Daxflame, Happyslip, and Music/TayZonday.

The ShamelessSelfPromoter is usually the one who does this. Compare NowBuyTheMerchandise.

* The Critical Drinker used to end videos with the standard "like & subscribe" request, but according to a Q&A, he eventually decided it was cliche and unnecessary, since it rarely persuades viewers who don't care to subscribe. His new signoff is a terse "Anyway, that's all I have for today. Go away now!"

The ShamelessSelfPromoter is usually the one who does this.

* For every version of ''VisualNovel/{{Melody}}'' released before the completion of the story, gameplay ended with a message to check out the developers’ Patreon page.

-->'''Tom:''' There's one angle that I haven't seen on that yet: a video for a startup company pitch for a product that creates millions of subtly different versions of a video, or a political speech, or an article, and then measures them against simulated fictional people to get their reactions. But it becomes clear over the course of watching the video that the video itself is one of those tests, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou that the viewer is one of the simulated test subjects]], and when the video ends, so will they, unless they are satisfied with the video. "Like and subscribe, and your simulation will be kept running." ''[laughs]'' That might be too creepy, actually? It seems like a bad idea to potentially induce that much existential angst. But, you know. [[HyprocriticalHumor Do like, comment, and subscribe. Just in case.]] ''[{{Ominous Visual Glitch}}es appear]'' The video is ending, after all.

Not to be confused with ''[[http://www.pleasesubscribemovie.com/ Please Subscribe]]'', which is a documentary of various [=YouTube=] celebrities including David Choi, Daxflame, Happyslip, and Music/TayZonday.

* ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'': Defied in the ending disclaimer of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeO7XqWOJso Does pineapple go on pizza?]]''.

You've heard it a thousand times. You're watching a video on Website/YouTube and suddenly they ask you "and please subscribe to our channel", or maybe they tell you where their subscribe button is located since you could never hope to find it on your own. Typically, any "professional-ish" Website/YouTube video closes with anywhere from 15 seconds to 2 minutes of screens full of flashing animated "Click Me! Click Me!" buttons trying to entice the viewer to subscribe and/or watch all the other videos in the channel, as well as exhortations to upvote and favorite the video. Apparently they expect you to favorite every single video in the series, which makes you wonder if they have a clue what the point of favoriting is.

-->'''Fuck Cares:''' Fear not. I'm not going to ask you to like, subscribe, yadda yadda. [[TakeThat I'm not a cunt]].

--> '''Tom Baker:''' Well, how could I possibly forget that? For goodness sake! You've got the message, haven't you?\\

* Smoldep from ‘’VisualNovel/SmoldepsMagickalAdventure'' tells you to remember to like and subscribe to her Youtube channel, and maybe even leave a comment. This leads to a ButThouMust moment in which choosing not to do so will result in [[spoiler: Smoldep killing You.]]

* Smoldep from ‘’VisualNovel/SmoldepsMagickalAdventure'' tells you to remember to like and subscribe to her YouTube channel, and maybe even leave a comment. This leads to a ButThouMust moment in which choosing not to do so will result in [[spoiler: Smoldep killing You.]]

--> '''Tom Baker:''' Well, I how could possibly forget that? For goodness sake! You've got the message, haven't you?\\

* Creating a link that says 'CLICK HERE to subscribe' using annotations is extremely common on Youtube.
** [[http://youtu.be/f-CVtyAp8cY?t=23m15s Here's]] an example of one. It's the red rectangle sitting on Xoda's forehead.

** This has even got to the point that [[https://youtu.be/tro8orISlYE once]] while playing ''VideoGame/AmongUs'', Techno called an Emergency Meeting ''just to tell the people playing with him to "Subscribe to Technoblade". [[spoiler:The aforementioned other players immediately voted him off, and it turns out Techno ''was the Impostor'', meaning that he would rather lose the game than miss out on promoting his channel.]] It must be seen to be believed.

** Don't forget [[https://youtu.be/tro8orISlYE this amazing moment]]

* ''WebVideo/LouderWithCrowder'': At the end of every video, Crowder snarkily asks viewers to subscribe to his channel, leave an angry comment, or join the "mug club" (a members area granting access to more content and a hand-etched coffee mug with the show's logo).

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* ''WebVideo/{{TheDuelLogs}}'' uses an indirect variation: the videos end with "did you know, only X% of people who watch these videos are actually subscribed to the channel?"